Robert Shiller

'We Might Not See A Major Turnaround In Our Lifetimes'

Reuters | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Housing Market, Home Prices, Reuters, Mortgage Rates, Foreclosure, Housing Market Rebound, Case-Shiller Index, Robert Shiller, Housing Bubble, Money News

NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. housing market is likely to remain weak and may take a generation or more to rebound, Yale economics profess...

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A New American Dream?

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Suburban Growth, Suburbs, Video, American Dream, Business News, Sprawling Suburbs, Urban Growth, Mcmansions, The Suburbs, Robert Shiller, Suburban Sprawl, Business News

WASHINGTON — Living in an outlying Chicago suburb, Jeff Wehrli recalls a heady time not too long ago when city dwellers poured in and developers...

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Corporate Austerity Not the Answer in 2012

Harlan Green | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Animal Spirits, Robert Shiller, Income Inequality, George Akerlof, Gdp, Conference Board LEI, Professor James Livingston, Business News

How to cure the record income inequality that has resulted from so much power going to Wall Street and the corporations? At least, let us return to the income tax brackets that brought so much prosperity to the middle class during the 1960s and 1970s. What were they?

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Romer, Shiller, Other Economists Offer Their Advice For 2012

The New York Times | N. GREGORY MANKIW, CHRISTINA D. ROMER; TYLER COWEN; ROBERT H. FRANK; ROBERT J. SHILLER and RICHARD H. THALER | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Economists Advice for 2012, Christina Romer, Business News, Economy 2012, Tyler Cowen, Robert Shiller, Greg Mankiw, Business News

Believe it or not, times are getting better. Some homebuilding picked up, but no fix emerged for the housing crisis. At least that's what the dry ...

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Wealthy Patriots Wage Class War

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Mortgage Crisis, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Obama 60 Minutes, Robert Shiller, Countrywide Financial, Video, Business News

A strange thing happened in Chicago. An audience of well-heeled professionals, a mixture of Democrats and Republicans, packed a room to hear Robert Shiller give a presentation on the housing market. At the end of the presentation, there was a bi-partisan revolt.

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Yale Profs Stress Need For Government Spending

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, William Nordhaus, Economy, John Geanakoplos, Aleh Tsyvinski, Federal Reserve, Stimulus, Bush Tax Cuts, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, Video, Judith Chevalier, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Richard C. Levin, Investment, Yale University, Robert Shiller, Business News

As Yale University economists gathered on Thursday evening to discuss job growth strategies, many warned that a failure to act aggressively risks the ...

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Here’s How To Add Stimulus Without Adding Debt

The New Republic | Robert Shiller | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: US Economy, Double Dip Recession, Robert Shiller, Stimulus Economy, Stimulus Debt, Unemployment Crisis, Business News

There are two facts about our current economic situation that can no longer be denied: Our economy is in desperate need of government stimulus, and ou...

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Who Will Drag Us Into the 21st Century?

Harlan Green | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: US-Passport-Holders-by-State, U.S. Empire, Decline-and-Fall-of-the-Roman-Empire, British Empire, Robert Shiller, President Barack Obama, Macro Markets LLC, Grey's Blog, Business News

It is a struggle between those who have already entered the 21st century and those who are holding back because they are fearful of its faster pace, or have a great nostalgia for a much simpler, older America.

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Please, Stop Stimulating the Stock Market and Start Stimulating the Economy

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Economic Stimulus Package, Qe2, Hedge Funds, Stock Market, Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke, Robert Shiller, Business News

On the surface, quantitative easing sounds like a great idea. This is a flawed policy based on the misguided belief that a rising stock market will boost economic activity.

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U.S. Economy At 'Risk' Of Falling Into Double-Dip Recession: Shiller

Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Housing Market, S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Double-Dip Recession, Stock Market, Economic Crisis, Robert Shiller, Housing Crisis, Standard & Poor, Video, Business News

NEW YORK - Recent housing and employment data suggests the U.S. economy is at a tipping point where a double-dip recession is possible and home pr...

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LISTEN: The Decade's Home Prices Converted Into Musical Notes

NPR | JACOB GOLDSTEIN and DAVID KESTENBAUM | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Texas, Juilliard School, Karl Case, Housing Boom, Home Prices, Opera, Case-Shiller Index, Robert Shiller, Miami, Dallas, Baritone, Housing Crisis, Business News

The Case-Shiller home price index is a powerful way to look at the story of housing in America. You can see the boom and bust all in one simple graph....

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CHART: Americans' Race To Buy Bigger Homes

Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Median Home Value, Inflation, Housing Value, Home Price, Home Value, US Census, Robert Shiller, Housing Costs, Housing Graphs, Economic Charts, Visualizing Economics, Financial Crisis Graphics, Economic Graphs, Business News

By Catherine Mulbrandon VisualizingEconomics.com Our homes have changed in many ways over the last 70 years, including homes size, building technolo...

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Robert Shiller: Job-Creation Stimulus On Levin's 'Agenda'

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Levin, Economic Crisis, Business News, Larry Summers, Case-Shiller Index, National Economic Council, Robert Shiller, Barack Obama, Business News

Yale President Richard Levin, who is reportedly being considered for an economic post in the Obama administration, believes the government should give...

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Businesses Make 'Wish Lists' For Republicans, But Uncertainty Remains

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, House of Representatives, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Business News, Richard Shelby, Tom Donohue, Business, Sheila Bair, Robert Shiller, Republicans, Dodd-Frank Bill, Business News

This post has been updated. Big businesses have made "wish lists" for legislation they hope the now even more divided Congress will consider, the Wal...

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Top Economist: Dodd-Frank Does Not Solve Too Big To Fail Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Buttonwood, Economic Crisis, Too Big to Fail, Business News, David Rubenstein, Robert Shiller, Housing Bubble, Business News

The Dodd-Frank financial reform law does not solve the problem of "too big to fail," the implicit government protection of large financial institution...

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A Simple Proposal For Easing The Unemployment Crisis: Direct Government Hiring

DailyFinance | VISHESH KUMAR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment Hiring, Unemployment Jobs, Unemployment Jobs Bill, Direct Government Hiring, Stimulus, Robert Shiller, Recession, Business News

How much of an impact the stimulus has actually had on unemployment so far, though, gets overlooked in the dueling prophecies. But straightforward ...

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Robert Shiller: To Add Jobs, Bring Back Revenue Sharing

New York Times | ROBERT J. SHILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Revenue Sharing Jobs, Jobs Crisis, General Reveue Sharing, Economic Crisis, Revenue Sharing, Jobs, Robert Shiller, Business News

Protracted unemployment is eating away at millions of people. And the economy's failure to create enough jobs for them is part of a vicious circle tha...

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5 Reasons to Stop Worrying About Home Prices

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Farrell, National Association of Realtors, National Association of Home Builders, Eric Schurenberg, Linda Stern, Robert Shiller, Business News

The New York Times more or less pronounced the single family home dead as an asset this week. Data from the National Association of Realtors and the F...

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Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Double Dip Recession Odds, Mohamed El-Erian, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Nouriel Roubini, Third World America, Economic Crisis, Double Dip Recession, David Rosenberg, Robert Shiller, Second Recession, Business News

Buried amidst the increasingly gloomy economic news of the last few weeks -- which includes stubbornly high unemployment, rising foreclosures and a gr...

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The Appeal of Austerity Is Fading -- Where Is Obama?

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Deficit, Public Spending, Unemployed, Jobless Americans, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Social Security, Robert Greenstein, Obama Budget, Alan Greenspan, Medicare, Robert Shiller, Matt Miller, Politics News

Where is the high-profile Obama speech making clear that the top priority for now is putting America back to work, and that deficit reduction will come when the economy is back on track?

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Milken Forecast (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Milken Institute, Economic Forecasts, Slidepollajax, Double-Dip Recession, Jobs, Gdp Growth, Economic Growth, Robert Shiller, Recession, Business News

First the bad news: a growing number of economists suggest the U.S. has significant chance of falling into another recession -- and today's GDP number...

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Double-Dip Recession: 'Probability Is More Than 50 Percent,' Says Shiller

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Double-Dip Recession, Financial Crisis, Yale University, Case-Shiller Index, Robert Shiller, Recession, Business News

(Reuters) - The state of the economy is worrisome and there is a high possibility of a double-dip recession, one of the property market's most well-kn...

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Renting Or Buying: Which Is More Grown Up?

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Real Estate Market, Citizenship, Housing-Finance-Agencies, Switzerland, Mortgage Institutions, Renting a House, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Renting, Moving House, Homeowners, Commitment, Moving, Buying a House, Robert Shiller, Landlords, Healthy Living News

Financial theory tells us that people should diversify their assets, rather than dumping them all in one place (a home). For the majority of Americans, renting might make more sense.

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John Varley Defends Bonuses: Profits Are "Not Satanic" Barclays CEO Tells London Church Crowd

Posted 05.25.2011

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The CEO of Britian's second-largest bank became the second of that nation's banking figures to make the case for profits in the house of god, defendin...

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U.S. Stock Market In Bubble Territory

businessinsider.com | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stock Market Crash, Market Bubbles, Stock Bubble, Stock Market, Stock Market Bubble, P-E Ratio, Robert Shiller, Great Depression, Business News

As the latest update of Professor Robert Shiller's cyclically adjusted PE ratio shows, US stocks are now more than 30% overvalued, at 21X earnings. T...

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